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Chicago examiner vol vii no 157 a m tuesday june 22 1909 14 pages price one cent delivered hy carrier so cents per month hunt for waste of city's funds begun by council to get votes for bonos mayor ordered to pick com mission bare facts and seek public confidence seizure of milk planned ordinance requiring low tem perature said to contain joker for ice men what was done by the city council last night i indorsed n order for a thorough i-n j quiry into the expenditures of the city ' by a commic&ion of nine received an ordinance provi-iiag for ! seizure of milk not kept in a tempera i ture of below 50 degrees fahrenheit ordered passed alderman clancy's or ; din^nce permitting the construction of a trees car line in ullerto avenue from â– milwaukee to portieth avenues ordered permits for street car con ! etruction held up in the twenty-third ward pending settlement of death trlu dubate ordered the calumet & eastern sail j road company to build a line from hege ! wisch to riverdale or forfeit its fran chise ordered prefixes south north east and wesf before all streets un ! der new system of street numbering cut half an hour from the bridge hours referring to rush state clark [ and dearborn streets mysterious avenues tb rough which the city's revenues fade away in the form of expenditures are to be revealed and the public will learn for the first time iu years just how the millions of the municipality are spent alderman charles e merri â– n last night created a mild sensation in i lie city coun cil h.v calling for a tdatemc t and until he asked permission to explain his reason tor doing my champions of mayor busse were busy asking questions and seeking to side track the proposed investigation this is not an attack oft the city ad ministration said alderman merriain it is simply Â§ move t <â€¢ let the public know just what the monies of tlie city are being u*ed for a week ago inventor deneen signed the bond bill which provides for lt;.oiw.(kk additional borrowing power for Chicago next spring the people of chi cago wil be asked to vote on tlie matter it is due them that they know just what the city spends how it spends it and what it needs in the way of additional \ funds if it is found that tlie city's revenues i are well spent the people will have con fidencc and vote for the bond bills if it j should appear by the inquiry that some de partment heads are extravagant a way will be found to make them economize and thus add to the public's confidence tin people must know why they are asked to vote for this tremendous increase in our j borrowing power mayor to name commission the merriain resolution calls for the ap pointment by the mayor of a commission of nine persons not less than three nf them to be aldermen who shall conduct the in quiry and report the findings the resolu tion was referred to the finance committee mayor liusse declared himself in favor of the resolution and announced tbat the chairman of the finance committee and the city com pt roller were also in favor of it the merriain resolution formed the prin cipal feature of a short session of the council the third from the last before the summer vacations council will ad journ july 6 for at least ten weeks an ordinance introduced by alderman lawley which he declared was sent to bim from the health department called for considerable criticism the measure calls for the confiscation of all milk that is found to be stored in a temperature cf higher than oo degrees fahrenheit the introduction to the ordinance reads that no milk cream buttermilk or skimmed milk shall be kept sold or offered for eale unless it shall have been kept at a temperature of less than m degress fah renheit in transit and all such milk offered for sale shall be promptly seized and condemned joker may aid ice men the joker in the ordinance is said to be that it will create if passed a favor able condition for the ice man it is con strued to mean that not only may such milk he seized from the dealers hut pri vate houses may be invaded and those people not fortunate enough to be able to buy ice will have to suffer i do not know much about the or dinance said alderman lawley but i believe it is drawn solely in the interests f the health of children and is not meant to apply to the homes of the users half eour milk should not be sold and it is merely to insure proper storage of the fluid that i have introduced this meas ure the ordinance was referred to the com mittee on health with another requiring the pasteurization of all milk found to contain more than 00,000 bacteria to the cubic centimeter alderman ilea the new representative of the thirty-third ward was appointed a member of the streets and alleys south committee the special assessment commit tee the city hall committee and the coui miuee on rules universities breed vice declares bishop mcfaul catholic parents are called on to refrain from sending their sons j to yale princeton and harvard new york june 21 calling on all catholic fathers and mothers to refrain from sending their sons to harvard prime ton and yale universities llishop james a mcfaul of trenton in addressing the j students of st francis xavier's college who obtained their degree of bachelor of arts denounced these universities as places where immorality is being ta'ught if the catholics who are sending their sons to these universities knew of the ras cality immorality and the disrespect for womankind that is being taught in them in said they would tear down the build ings there are families in this country who arc sacrificing their catholic faith and their church-taught morality in their fanatic and lunatic desire to get into so ciety that's why they send their sons to harvard princeton and yale they want to get into society tarough the associates their children meet in these institution s what we want is to send them to catholic schools where we teach them that there are such commandments as thou shalt not steal thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor 1 xo ! power bat the catholic church can stem i these evils tlie bishop said be did not believe catho | lies should unite in a great political party j as in germany ; e h harriman is well i financier is entertained in vienna lÂ»y tlbe euiitcfu special cable to the esaminer j vienna june 21 reports that edward 11 harriman was dead in this city were promptly attributed here to stock exchange i : rumors lor market purposes harriman is [ well and is stepping at the bristol hotel lie leaves for semmering to-morrow since his arrival in vienna mr harriman lias consulted rw fatuous specialists on nerv-j on diseases professors holzknecht and | struempel harriman so far as vienna is informed is suffering some spinal trouble on saturday mr harriman was among tlie emperor's guests at tlie none llandels akademie and on sunday afternoon he witnessed the trotting races and took a drive through the principal streets o'malley pleads guilty saloonkeeper-politic lnn pays i?_s fin - eor cia milling pat iimallcy gambler saloonkeeper nnd a political power iu the first ward meekly pleaded guilty to a charge of gam bling before municipal judge p.lake iu the harrison street police court yesterday morning and paid a 25 fine besides o'malley forty-five other gamblers most of whom were negroes faced judge blake twenty-five men arrested for shooting craps iu a saloon at 021 west lake street were dismissed but the keeper john green was fined i0 and costs elroy jones a saloonkeeper at 507 state street was accused of having a game in his j saloon where loaded dice were used ! jones was fined 5 and costs fall to death off train 111-others igod !> and 7 killed as jlotlier sits near frank aid hugh clark aged nine and seven years respectively were instantly killed yesterday by falling from an Illinois central train one mile north of monee in i be southern part of cook county the hoys who were going to grand rapids mich witli then mother mrs l clark of iroquois 111 to visit relatives left the coach unnoticed and are supposed to have goiie to the rear platform and fallen off flic train had proceeded several miles be j fore their absence was noticed a search of the train failing _Â« locate them the con ductor ordered the engineer to back the ] train up mrs clark who has a baby three i mouths old is prostrated loeffler sinking fast physicians say politician will not survive operation william loeffler well-known politician and former city clerk is reported dying physicians at the henrotin hospital where he recently underwent an operation do not believe he can survive members of the family wen 1 last night summoned to his bedside he has been unconscious since early yesterday mr loeffler has been in bad health for the past six weeks and an operation was performed a week ago in the hope of saving his life roosevelt sends 2 deer buby animals for mrs i.iingn-arlli arrive nt new york new york june 21 two baby ante lopes sent by ex-president roosevelt to his daughter mrs nicholas longworth were brought here to-day on the steamer vaderlaud arriving from antwerp nnd dover captain burman kept the little animals on the bridge and had them fed with milk from a a bottle on the way over the antelopes were sent on board the vaderlaud at antwerp from the german east african steamer admiral Chicago is richer still taxes go up officials discover wealth of city increases 132,009 225 in a year estates must pay tithes review board to be busy as busse bond bills raise all assessments Chicago is 132,009,225 richer to-day than ii was a year ago in spite of this fact every taxpayer in cook county will he compelled to pay 7 or 8 per cent more in taxes this year than last these discoveries were made yesterday when the board of assessors completed its search for taxable property in Chicago and the hoard of review which bas the final say as to che county's tax figures held its first meeting the meeting of the hoard of review in urates that this will be the busiest ses sion that body has seen in many years every assessment in cook county both real estate and personal must be reviewed by the board because of the new tax laws as the new bills will briii about an in crease in every assessment it is expected that there will be a greater number of complaints than ever before back taxes to ee paid along with these developments came the discovery thai the city is to add to its al ready rapidly increasing revenue by com noting more than a score of big estates to pay back taxes a special attorney for the i city has secured evidence that indicates that the owners of these estates owe the city and county taxes amounting to si 000,000 al of the evidence has been pre pared and when the board of feeviewj holds its first session for hearing cases ; july 7 the city will ask that all of these j estates be assessed baek taxes members of the board of review already have assured corporation counsel hrun dage that it will co-operate with the city in forcing such property owners to pay we are wor.king right along with the city in this matter said fred w uphani member of the board of review yester day whatever can be done to force de linquent taxpayers to pay up will have the support and b.-o-king of this hoard figures show increases figures compiled by tlie board of assess ors and completed yesterday show an in crease in every tow-nship in Chicago the following table which is for real estate alone shows the increase on this year's as sessment figures over the final figures of the board of review last year or the fig ures on which property owners were as sessed - , lid of review bd of assrs 190s 1900 hvde park $ 43,887,282 47,620,142 jefferson 9,585,033 10.212,441 lake 2.1.h42.117 2fi.'.174,827 lake view 24,466,138 36,186,735 south 125,808,595 128.097,663 north 24,223,980 24.710,857 west 84.821 301 86,:.iti'j,lol total 140,714,440 34u,071,51g this table as well as the personal prop erty table given below shows but one fifth of the actual value of the property assessed being the table on which proper ty owners are to be taxed this year personal property compared the comparative table for all personal property in Chicago is as follows hyde park $ 7.780,0.18 $ 10.086.656 jefferson 423,593 552,467 lake 5,004,006 5,834,047 lake view 3,099,817 4,189,412 south 52,306,-92 59,673,349 north 8,390,635 30 704 477 west 14,011.70 18,626,-15 total 01,022,172 109,666,663 grand total 432,336,618 458,738,469 the increase in assessed values for this year over the reviewers figures lor last is 20,401,851 or an actual increase in property values of 132,009,225 the real cause of the differences in the taxing figures this year aside from the normal increase in property values is the passage of the busse bond hills by the legislature it was understood by legisla tors that the passage of these bills would have no effect on the amount of taxes to be paid by property owners iu actual practice however members of the board of review assert that these bills will operate to increase taxes by 7 or s per cent juul doesn't understand i don't see how that is possible said senator juul yesterday afternoon those bills were figured out in such a manner as to leave the taxes to be paid at ex actly the same figure as before their pas sage this year the assessed value of property will be at one-third of actual value rather than at one-fifth of the actual value as heretofore was the case to equalize this increase the assessment rate is to he lowered accordingly patten agent gone shortage alleged john mclaughlin manteno 111 disappears thousands unaccounted for missing since saturday elevator manager a leading churchman declared to have plunged heavily kankakee 111 june 21 john mc laughlin a respected citizen of manteno 111 a little village to the north of kan kakee and for eighteen years a deacon iu the presbyterian church there is miss ing and it is declared the accounts of the manteno elevator of the Chicago firm of bartlett i'.-itten & co of which mc laughlin was manager show a shortage of 50,000 to 75,000 mclaughlin was last seen saturday driv ing out of manteno in an automobile in company with two men his family claim to know not bing of his whereabouts while a number of creditors of the elevator have made diligent search for ihe manager it is reported that mclaughlin has been plunging heavily in grains iu tlic past few months mil it is said that tlie two men whtr disuiujipiriilri witii him saturday irerc implicated with him in his trans.-o-tioiis it is known that mclaughlin has acted as agent for more than a hundred fanners in the neighborhood of mauteuo iu specula tive dealings in grain and it is stated that to cover up ibis own losses through specula tion and make good to customers who had been uniformly successful in the fat ten corn deal he sold grain delivered to him for storage lt is also charged that signatures of customers to remittances were forged and the paper disposed of to raise funds for speculative purposes customers are put off the first intimation of mclaughlin's deals came to light about ten days ago when customers who had made heavy win nings of may corn closed their deals and asked for their money june o was given out as settlement day but the customers were put off on one excuse or another from day to day when they finally be j came insistent mclaughlin is said to have plunged heavily in a desperate effort to recoup his losses in one transaction mclaughlin is said to have bought from i'oo.ooo to oot bushels of oats on a 3-cgnt margin iu which he lost heavily by the fall of the market only three creditors however were able to get their money of these will lebeau | receive s-t.ooo and fred senesac o<x mclaughlin is said to have paid each by personal check and then borrowed nearly r-.000 back from the two men among mclaughlin's alleged victims is a mrs skinner a widow who in decem ber delivered 1,349 bushels of corn to be stored in the elevator to-day when she called at the elevator to see about the grain she learned that it had been sold by mclaughlin the morning after delivery for 14 cents a bushel disappears from city the climax to mclaughlin's transactions came on last saturday when john lavoie a farmer after being refused settlement by mclaughlin came to kankakee to con fer with state's attorney j b miller learning that miller was out of the city lavoie weut to p h elcan district man ager for bartlett patten & co who called up mclaughlin and ordered him to come to kankakee later elcan changed his niand and with james patten who had been told of the condition of affairs hur ried to manteno there they found the office locked nnd learned from mrs mclaughlin that her husband was not home mclaughlin's ac counts it is said were investigated but the exact shortage could not be determined among the effects in mclaughlin's of fice it is said were noteheads of e w wagner a Chicago commission man with a kankakee branch it is believed mclaugh lin soeculated through this firm patten it is declared took the noteheads nnd will demand an investigation by the Chicago board of trade mclaughlin was bonded in a surety com pany for 5,000 and a bond of h was signed by three manteno men he has lived in manteno eighteen years and has been manager of the patten elevator for live years exiled don carlos dying special caole to the examiner madkid june i don carlos the pre tender to the spanish throne is danger ously ill and said to be dying in venice tlie news reached the spanish foreign of flee to-day by telegraph from emissaries whom tlie government lias kept shadowing the pretender and liis son throughout their exile in france and italy the report has created the utmost consternation among the carlists throughout europe and espe cially among the faction in spain a it may mean the end of the spanish revolu tionary party sigel at grave reveals woes leon's roommate is captured cousin of slain girl whose trinkets she identified chinese sought as stranglers house where elsie sigel first met orientals who became rivals for her hand and a monument to her noted grandfather father proclaims disgrace as daughter is buried with no women mourners tells of death threat facts are recited as to party slain girl and mother gave orientals new york june 21 the body of elsie sigel the slain granddaughter of general franz sigel was quietly buried this afternoon in woodlawn cemetery while the police of a hundred cities were actively engaged iu a search for leon ling suspected of the crime which has aroused the iuterest of the entire country the grave had been dm hurriedly as though for a victim of some terrible plague and the absence of mourners aside from the girl's father and two brothers and with not a woman to shed a tear as the coffin was lowered made it appear more than ever that the woman in the coffin was a victim of a plague a yellow plague that her death has revealed in all its hideous phases the mother her mind shattered by the blow of her daughter's frightful death was in a sanitarium in connecticut aunts fe male cousius and other woman relatives of the girl were not informed of the fu neral arrangements the father wished no scene at the grave without a prayer or ceremony of any kind the body was lowered into the grave after it had been tilled the father who had stood with bowed head by the grave until the coffin had been hidden from view turned and walked slowly away father tells of his shame i am a broken man he said to his sons the revelations that the death of my daughter have brought to me about the associations of the women members of my family with chinamen and the death of my daughter at the hands of one of these yellow men have broken my heart i can never hold up my head again this then ' was the end of what was mortal of pretty klsie sigel the china town mission worker but whether she died a martyr to save other girls from a similar fate and whether the men re sponsible for her death are to be captured and punished is a living question which brought rapid and important develop ments to-day from a score or more cities came word that leon ling or choug sing had been seen or were being traced and two ar rests were made one in schenectady of a man supposed to be leon ling and an other iu amsterdam of a man supposed to be chong siiil the missing roommate of the chinaman wanted for murder the suspect captured at schenectady Chicago beef wins english give order war office cables armour & co for 1 000,000 pounds . to feed troops Chicago beef again has won against the world and over calumny by cable from the london war office the british goveru ment yesterday ordered from armour & co 1,000,000 pounds of canned corned beef destined lor the haversacks of his majes ty's troops tills order is tlie second to lie received since the memorable eruption of four years ago when upton sinclair touched a match to public opinion and the resultant explosion was heard the world around it follows a secret inspection of the Chicago packing plants by experts of the british government these men many of them army officers surgeons and chemists literally sneaked into the meat canning factories they ob tained employment as common workers and labored many months in the most unpleas ant sections of the plants just like other men of the yards early this year they reported back to their government and in february came the answer iu the form of an order for 3,000,000 pounds of beef that it received the approval of mr tommy atkins is evidenced by the cablegram of yesterday i regard it as the tlnal seal of recom mendation said general manager arthur meeker for the past four years ameri can meat has been an object of suspicion why so strong was the feeling against goods from the united states that in the british colonies the most libelous circu lars and posters were printed the trade here fell off about 50 per cent then late last year a special investi gation was made by the british authori ties their report was so favorable that we obtaiued a his order from england in february tbat was the test we not only had to bid against for eign count lies but against tlie near brit ish colonies themselves the order amounts to only about 120,000 in cash but it is of inealeuable value in marking the reinstatement of american goods on a solid basis delivery will be made in october possum's bite kills man miunt vernon 11 june 1 henry smith forty-nine years old of williamson county is dead from blood poisoning from the bite of a possum caught while hunting baptist church imperiled by ouster vote says foster by george burman foster violence and calumny foes weapons he declares de nomination will petrify if spirit is suppressed pastors conference decision void as one week's notice was omitted declares prof soares Chicago university myers faction of preachers council is accused of bad faith and an appeal will be taken to president snashell i am not at all surprised at the ac tion of the clergy it they really hold to the principle of a formal i external authority they could not well do otherwise than they have j done and their weapons of violence calumny and ridicule instead of rea son are a logical consequence of their principle their standpoint is that of the roman catholic church but the his toric baptist position is the exa l op posite of this that position funda mentally is freedom which reveals itself in moral love and righteousness and in the earnest and reverent search for truth to he sure like every cultural re ligion it has a system of ideas but these ideas are variable they change with the changes of the cen turies and the needs of experience if the baptist denomination proposes to raise and fix its inherited system of ideas into a finality then the de nomination will petrify but if lt will allow its inner spirit as i have de fined that spirit to express itself in the use of new ideas in our new age then it will live but not otherwise at all event this is my conception of the baptist denomination if the local church of which i am a member will repudiate this statement as being the kernel of the baptist position it will have no difficulty with me i will immediately ask them to depose me from the ministry and to withdraw their fellowship from me as to my position on the faculty of the uni versity of Chicago i have nothing to say i leave that matter to the authorities of the university knowing them to be reasonable and noble men i have but to add most sincerely that a cherish no ill will or resentment toward the conference i only hope now that i am out of the way they may have peace among themselves although iho professors at the i ntverstty of chicago's divinity school tire planning to attack the validity of the vote by whh-h professor george barman foster was expelled yesterday from the Chicago baptist ministers conference dr foster himself declared last night in a formal statement issued by liitn that he hoped the conference would have peace now that he was out of the way whether the heretical professor's friends will be able to receive his sanction for a movement to re-open the case is problematical in any case however assurance is given that the heresy case is not ended professor theodore soares of the divin ity school has announced that the so called expulsion will be challenged as illegal lust what form the challenge will take has not heen disclosed foster challenges conference in his statement professor foster chal lenged the conference to get the hyde park baptist church in which he is a member to repudiate him if that church condemns him professor foster declares he wiil ask to be deposed from member ship he also announced that he had nothing to say about his position in the univer sity of Chicago hut that he would leave his fate to the university authorities who be said he knows to he reasonable and noble men professor foster's standing in the nnl versity is no more affected by his so-called expulsion from the baptist conference tha it would be if he had been really expelled from the hamilton club or any social or civic organization said professor soares accusing the rev johnston myers the rev john a earl and pr a c dixon ot forcing a snap vote expelling trofessor foster from membership in the bap tist ministers conference nt yesterday's sensational meeting of that ; ody the friends of lhe alleged heretical professor hinted lrts t night that action of the confer ence would be challenged at a future meet ing professor soares declat^il that professo continued on 2d page ar column fr 3iimninmimimmittoi iiniitiininir|c_|p weather forecast m Chicago and vicinity partiy m cloudy tuesday and wednesday i ' i with probably showers continued j warm rr cderate to brisk southwest ml winds inul toaimiimmil . iimmiaiwiimnim munmmr-rrn im who watches not > catches not 1 1 ftitk â€” proverb 3*[f i Â§ watch the want ads in the it'l t Chicago examiner and jj j catch the bargains 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Chicago examiner vol vii no 157 a m tuesday june 22 1909 14 pages price one cent delivered hy carrier so cents per month hunt for waste of city's funds begun by council to get votes for bonos mayor ordered to pick com mission bare facts and seek public confidence seizure of milk planned ordinance requiring low tem perature said to contain joker for ice men what was done by the city council last night i indorsed n order for a thorough i-n j quiry into the expenditures of the city ' by a commic&ion of nine received an ordinance provi-iiag for ! seizure of milk not kept in a tempera i ture of below 50 degrees fahrenheit ordered passed alderman clancy's or ; din^nce permitting the construction of a trees car line in ullerto avenue from â– milwaukee to portieth avenues ordered permits for street car con ! etruction held up in the twenty-third ward pending settlement of death trlu dubate ordered the calumet & eastern sail j road company to build a line from hege ! wisch to riverdale or forfeit its fran chise ordered prefixes south north east and wesf before all streets un ! der new system of street numbering cut half an hour from the bridge hours referring to rush state clark [ and dearborn streets mysterious avenues tb rough which the city's revenues fade away in the form of expenditures are to be revealed and the public will learn for the first time iu years just how the millions of the municipality are spent alderman charles e merri â– n last night created a mild sensation in i lie city coun cil h.v calling for a tdatemc t and until he asked permission to explain his reason tor doing my champions of mayor busse were busy asking questions and seeking to side track the proposed investigation this is not an attack oft the city ad ministration said alderman merriain it is simply Â§ move t and 7 killed as jlotlier sits near frank aid hugh clark aged nine and seven years respectively were instantly killed yesterday by falling from an Illinois central train one mile north of monee in i be southern part of cook county the hoys who were going to grand rapids mich witli then mother mrs l clark of iroquois 111 to visit relatives left the coach unnoticed and are supposed to have goiie to the rear platform and fallen off flic train had proceeded several miles be j fore their absence was noticed a search of the train failing _Â« locate them the con ductor ordered the engineer to back the ] train up mrs clark who has a baby three i mouths old is prostrated loeffler sinking fast physicians say politician will not survive operation william loeffler well-known politician and former city clerk is reported dying physicians at the henrotin hospital where he recently underwent an operation do not believe he can survive members of the family wen 1 last night summoned to his bedside he has been unconscious since early yesterday mr loeffler has been in bad health for the past six weeks and an operation was performed a week ago in the hope of saving his life roosevelt sends 2 deer buby animals for mrs i.iingn-arlli arrive nt new york new york june 21 two baby ante lopes sent by ex-president roosevelt to his daughter mrs nicholas longworth were brought here to-day on the steamer vaderlaud arriving from antwerp nnd dover captain burman kept the little animals on the bridge and had them fed with milk from a a bottle on the way over the antelopes were sent on board the vaderlaud at antwerp from the german east african steamer admiral Chicago is richer still taxes go up officials discover wealth of city increases 132,009 225 in a year estates must pay tithes review board to be busy as busse bond bills raise all assessments Chicago is 132,009,225 richer to-day than ii was a year ago in spite of this fact every taxpayer in cook county will he compelled to pay 7 or 8 per cent more in taxes this year than last these discoveries were made yesterday when the board of assessors completed its search for taxable property in Chicago and the hoard of review which bas the final say as to che county's tax figures held its first meeting the meeting of the hoard of review in urates that this will be the busiest ses sion that body has seen in many years every assessment in cook county both real estate and personal must be reviewed by the board because of the new tax laws as the new bills will briii about an in crease in every assessment it is expected that there will be a greater number of complaints than ever before back taxes to ee paid along with these developments came the discovery thai the city is to add to its al ready rapidly increasing revenue by com noting more than a score of big estates to pay back taxes a special attorney for the i city has secured evidence that indicates that the owners of these estates owe the city and county taxes amounting to si 000,000 al of the evidence has been pre pared and when the board of feeviewj holds its first session for hearing cases ; july 7 the city will ask that all of these j estates be assessed baek taxes members of the board of review already have assured corporation counsel hrun dage that it will co-operate with the city in forcing such property owners to pay we are wor.king right along with the city in this matter said fred w uphani member of the board of review yester day whatever can be done to force de linquent taxpayers to pay up will have the support and b.-o-king of this hoard figures show increases figures compiled by tlie board of assess ors and completed yesterday show an in crease in every tow-nship in Chicago the following table which is for real estate alone shows the increase on this year's as sessment figures over the final figures of the board of review last year or the fig ures on which property owners were as sessed - , lid of review bd of assrs 190s 1900 hvde park $ 43,887,282 47,620,142 jefferson 9,585,033 10.212,441 lake 2.1.h42.117 2fi.'.174,827 lake view 24,466,138 36,186,735 south 125,808,595 128.097,663 north 24,223,980 24.710,857 west 84.821 301 86,:.iti'j,lol total 140,714,440 34u,071,51g this table as well as the personal prop erty table given below shows but one fifth of the actual value of the property assessed being the table on which proper ty owners are to be taxed this year personal property compared the comparative table for all personal property in Chicago is as follows hyde park $ 7.780,0.18 $ 10.086.656 jefferson 423,593 552,467 lake 5,004,006 5,834,047 lake view 3,099,817 4,189,412 south 52,306,-92 59,673,349 north 8,390,635 30 704 477 west 14,011.70 18,626,-15 total 01,022,172 109,666,663 grand total 432,336,618 458,738,469 the increase in assessed values for this year over the reviewers figures lor last is 20,401,851 or an actual increase in property values of 132,009,225 the real cause of the differences in the taxing figures this year aside from the normal increase in property values is the passage of the busse bond hills by the legislature it was understood by legisla tors that the passage of these bills would have no effect on the amount of taxes to be paid by property owners iu actual practice however members of the board of review assert that these bills will operate to increase taxes by 7 or s per cent juul doesn't understand i don't see how that is possible said senator juul yesterday afternoon those bills were figured out in such a manner as to leave the taxes to be paid at ex actly the same figure as before their pas sage this year the assessed value of property will be at one-third of actual value rather than at one-fifth of the actual value as heretofore was the case to equalize this increase the assessment rate is to he lowered accordingly patten agent gone shortage alleged john mclaughlin manteno 111 disappears thousands unaccounted for missing since saturday elevator manager a leading churchman declared to have plunged heavily kankakee 111 june 21 john mc laughlin a respected citizen of manteno 111 a little village to the north of kan kakee and for eighteen years a deacon iu the presbyterian church there is miss ing and it is declared the accounts of the manteno elevator of the Chicago firm of bartlett i'.-itten & co of which mc laughlin was manager show a shortage of 50,000 to 75,000 mclaughlin was last seen saturday driv ing out of manteno in an automobile in company with two men his family claim to know not bing of his whereabouts while a number of creditors of the elevator have made diligent search for ihe manager it is reported that mclaughlin has been plunging heavily in grains iu tlic past few months mil it is said that tlie two men whtr disuiujipiriilri witii him saturday irerc implicated with him in his trans.-o-tioiis it is known that mclaughlin has acted as agent for more than a hundred fanners in the neighborhood of mauteuo iu specula tive dealings in grain and it is stated that to cover up ibis own losses through specula tion and make good to customers who had been uniformly successful in the fat ten corn deal he sold grain delivered to him for storage lt is also charged that signatures of customers to remittances were forged and the paper disposed of to raise funds for speculative purposes customers are put off the first intimation of mclaughlin's deals came to light about ten days ago when customers who had made heavy win nings of may corn closed their deals and asked for their money june o was given out as settlement day but the customers were put off on one excuse or another from day to day when they finally be j came insistent mclaughlin is said to have plunged heavily in a desperate effort to recoup his losses in one transaction mclaughlin is said to have bought from i'oo.ooo to oot bushels of oats on a 3-cgnt margin iu which he lost heavily by the fall of the market only three creditors however were able to get their money of these will lebeau | receive s-t.ooo and fred senesac o catches not 1 1 ftitk â€” proverb 3*[f i Â§ watch the want ads in the it'l t Chicago examiner and jj j catch the bargains /}& is a 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